Tokyo Literary Godfather

Kei Fujiwara held a cocktail party at the club, and most of the guests were well-known screenwriters in the industry.

Some of these people are freelance screenwriters, and some are affiliated to other TV stations. They are both male and female, a total of six people, and these people were invited by Kei Fujiwara to serve as the responsible judges of the "Mizuba Award".

After all, I have been immersed in the broadcasting industry for three years, and I have a lot of connections. These screenwriters have all achieved remarkable results in the industry, and their writing styles are novel. They are not old-school screenwriters, and are more suitable for [Shuibo Appreciation] ]'s receiving style.

Two of the screenwriters were recommended by Ensuke Kato. As the former king of the broadcast industry, Kei Fujiwara relied on his half-master and half-disciple friendship with this veteran to ask him to serve as a judge for the Mizuha Awards. But Ensuke Kato refused, on the grounds that he was too old to undertake the task of reading a large number of manuscripts, and now he also noticed that his writing ideas were faintly showing trends that were inconsistent with current trends. So I am not suitable to be a judge for this kind of newcomer competition.

But he was still willing to provide his "half-apprentice" with the help he could, so he used his connections to recommend two screenwriters, and also said that he could be an "honorary judge" for this award. Even though he also has the status of a judge, he If you don’t participate in the actual selection, it’s just for this water wave viewing platform.

As soon as the advertisement for [Mizunami Appreciation] was released, relying on Fujiwara Kei's reputation, hundreds of manuscripts were received in less than a month, and as time went by, the number of manuscripts increased. Of course, at first glance, it turns out that the product is of inferior quality, either obviously plagiarized or of shockingly poor quality.

Kei Fujiwara personally read a few submissions at the beginning. Less than an hour after reading them, his heart collapsed. Suddenly he remembered that sentence, most of the newcomers' works are shit, and the judges and editors selected a few of the newcomers' works. The process that Kankan can watch is not digging for gold in the sand, but picking maggots from the shit.

When he saw someone imitating "Naoki Hansawa" and writing an episode of nondescript scripts, and it was only one episode, with an introduction to the work written at the end, Kei Fujiwara was completely defeated.

The introduction of the work is: The author is a high school student, but he has excellent creative talents. Because he is afraid that the carefully created content will be stolen or plagiarized (I have no doubts about Mr. Fujiwara’s intentions, I am just cautious), so The specific script content and outline are not given yet. I am confident that I can write a wonderful work that surpasses "Naoki Hansawa", but I need a promise, that is, I must win this competition, and if I want to film my work, not a single word of the script can be modified! There are too many mediocre people in this world who simply do not have the ability to appreciate good works. But I believe that Mr. Fujiwara has such ability, so I submit the article at the risk of being plagiarized. Even though there is only one episode, the content of this episode is enough to demonstrate the author's creative ability.

Note: I know that most of the first-round screening works for newcomers’ works are ordinary editors. If you can’t appreciate this work, it’s because you lack ability. Please give the work to Mr. Fujiwara. I believe only he can see this work. Do not mishandle the extraordinary features of the work, otherwise you will miss another record-breaking work and bear the consequences! Remember, remember!

Please note: I only answer calls from Kei Fujiwara himself, no one else needs to contact me.

Looking at the introduction of this work, I feel that it is more interesting than the content of his text... Fujiwara Kei rubbed Yamane and said to his work assistant: "Give these newcomers' manuscripts to the editorial assistants of the club and let them Select some obviously unqualified works and do a round of screening.”

Obviously unqualified works refer to those that are written in nonsense, that are obviously plagiarized, that have low writing skills and are childish, that do not comply with the rules for receiving manuscripts, and there are even those that write a paragraph or a blank paragraph, with the words " ——I haven’t thought about this plot yet, so I’ll leave it blank for now and wait. There are all kinds of weird content.

The judges in the first round are not actually judges. They are not required to carefully evaluate the content of the works. They can just take a rough look. Most of the works will be eliminated in the first round, and the remaining ones will be judged by the five judges. , including Kei Fujiwara's passing.

"Yes." The staff assistant nodded and left holding a large pile of manuscripts.

The new work assistant is a boy who has just graduated. He wears glasses, has a shaved head, and has a strong figure. Because he is young and energetic, he can handle heavy work with Kei Fujiwara.

However, compared to the previous Shiraishi Monet, his working ability seems to be a little worse. He is not as careful as the other person. Perhaps because of his youth, he always makes some work mistakes. It’s not that Kei Fujiwara can’t tolerate young people making innocuous mistakes, but he still can’t help but miss the silky-smooth working experience when working with Shiraishi Monet, when he could just make a request and get feedback immediately.

I have to say that Shiraishi Monet is really an excellent assistant. Before Shiraishi Monet, Fujiwara Kei was not even qualified to be an assistant. It was because of her that he tasted the sweetness of an assistant and couldn't quit it since then.

He suddenly recalled the warnings of some seniors in the workplace when he was in college in his previous life: If you want to achieve great success, you must not take an assistant position. Even if you do become an assistant, don't act too capable. The assistant position is different from other positions. The more capable you are, the less likely you will get a promotion. This is true whether in private companies or government agencies.

Fujiwara Kei couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Where can I find a good boss like me...

Suddenly thinking of Shiraishi Monet, Fujiwara Kei thought about contacting her, because during this time she was also preparing a new work and planned to participate in the "Water Wave Award".

Yes, she is also eligible to participate in the Water Wave Selection. Because she has never been a chief screenwriter until now, and the highest position she has ever held was episode screenwriter, she is also qualified to participate.

Kei Fujiwara set the acceptance requirements for [Mizuba Appreciation] as "popular works that the public loves, any genre is acceptable", and even specifically stated that "trend dramas and idol dramas" are not excluded.

For many screenwriting awards, some trending drama scripts are almost insulators of winning awards. Therefore, many participating writers are unwilling to write about this kind of subject matter.

But even if Kei Fujiwara sets this rule, it seems that he cannot prevent this award from "systemic discrimination" against trending drama scripts. After all, Kei Fujiwara is not the only judge of this Grand Prix. Although Kei Fujiwara is the initiator, he set the rules to select the winning works according to the number of votes. In addition, he has a total of six judges. The one with the highest votes will win the prize. In case of a tie, the role of Kato Ensuke, the half-master, will be reflected.

On the contrary, Kei Fujiwara hopes that there will be a dramatic bridge such as a tie ticket in the final link. This will be more suspenseful, and it will also attract the attention of ordinary viewers and increase the popularity of this award.

In order to avoid rejection and discrimination of works such as "trend drama" and "horror drama", the rule set by Kei Fujiwara is: first classify all shortlisted and submitted works into specific categories, and then select one of the works in each category. The best in the department enter the top two. Then, among all the top two works, the single best work will be selected to become the winning work.